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Souren Choudhury
Souren Choudhury (born 25 July 1918, date of death unknown) was an Indian sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle, prone event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Choudhury is deceased.
Suma Shirur
Suma Shirur (born 10 May 1974) is an Indian former sport shooter who competed in the 10 metre air rifle event. She is a joint world record holder in the event, having scored the maximum of 400 points in the qualification round, which she achieved at the 2004 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur. In 2003, she was awarded the Arjuna Award by the government of India.
Suruchi Singh
Suruchi Inder Singh Phogat (born 28 April 2006) is an Indian sports shooter who specializes in the 10 m air pistol event. Singh gained international recognition by winning three back-to-back gold medals at the 2025 World Cup.
Sushma Rana
Sushma Singh (née Rana) is an Indian shooter who won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, earning 1140 points, with her partner Saroja Kumari Jhuthu. She competes in the 25-meter shooting events and has held the national record for 25-metre shooting event from 2002 to 2003. She was inspired by Jaspal Rana, her older brother and a shooting champion himself, to take up the sport.
Tejaswini Sawant
Tejaswini Sawant (born 12 September 1980) is an Indian shooter and Olympian from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. In 2010 she became World Champion in the 50 metre prone rifle event.
Tilottama Sen
Tilottama Sen (born 25 April 2008) is an Indian sport shooter from Bangalore. In 2023, she won the silver medal in the women's 10m air rifle event at the Asian Shooting Championship at Changwon in South Korea, earning a quota place for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She is the youngest Indian to win a quota for the Olympics.
Udhayveer Sidhu
Udhayveer Sidhu is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol, 25 meter pistol, 25 meter standard pistol and 10 meter air pistol. He won a twenty plus international medals representing India. He is in the Indian Shooting Team since 2018.
Varsha Varman
Varsha Varman (born 1 June 1994) is a professional Indian sport shooter. She won the bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in the women's double trap team event, along with Shagun Chowdhary and Shreyasi Singh. Varman thus became the first sportsperson from Bhopal Madhya Pradesh to win a medal at the Asian Games.
Vedika Sharma
Vedika Sharma (born 2003) is an Indian deaf sports shooter. She made her Deaflympic debut at the age of 19 representing India at the 2021 Summer Deaflympics (held in May 2022).
Vijay Kumar
Honorary Captain Vijay Kumar Sharma, AVSM, SM (born 19 August 1985) is an Indian sport shooter. He won the silver medal in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Kumar hails from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh and is a retired Subedar Major (Warrant Officer Class I) in the Dogra Regiment (16th Battalion) Indian Army, who was later promoted to Honorary Captain Rank.
Vijayveer Sidhu
Vijayveer Sidhu (born 21 June 2002) is an Indian sport shooter from Punjab. He won the bronze medal in Men's 25m rapid fire pistol team in the 2022 Asian Games. He bagged an Olympic quota berth for the Paris Olympics in the 25m rapid fire by winning a silver medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers on 13 January 2024 at Jakarta.
Vikram Bhatnagar
Vikram Bhatnagar is an Indian sport shooter. He started his career in International Sports Shooting with winning the Silver medal in the Men's Double Trap (Pairs) with Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He is an MBA and LLB Graduate and has interests Education and Development.
Vivek Singh
Vivek Singh is an Indian shooter. He won the silver medal in the Men's Air Pistol, and gold in Men's 50m Pistol (Pairs), with Samaresh Jung, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He also won the silver medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Yashaswini Singh Deswal
Yashaswini Singh Deswal is an Indian sport shooter. As of 2021, she is ranked world No. 1 in 10 meter air pistol.